Day 14. The fourth time. A user in our Discord asked, for the fourth time that week, the same question. Same wording, almost. The first three answers were buried somewhere in a thread, a pinned message, and a Notion page nobody bookmarked. A mod typed it out again. I watched it happen, opened Cursor, and started typing. That's the moment Acortia became a product instead of a side note. I'm Peng. Solo founder. Non-native English speaker. ESL teacher in Taipei by day, building backend software at night and on weekends. No funding. No team. No accelerator yet — YC F26 application is in. Five weeks ago I committed to building Acortia : a Discord-native Company Brain that answers /ask <q> with a grounded, cited answer pulled from whatever the server has /save d. $99/month. Mid-June launch. This is the build log. Real numbers, real bugs, real tradeoffs. No hype.…